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Events & Seminars

The Chemistry Department supports a robust seminar program that brings eminent scientists from around the world to present their current research to the Department. The normal Chemistry seminar day, Thursday, has two seminar times: one at 2:30 PM and another at 4:00 PM. While most seminars occur on Thursdays, many are scheduled at other times and other days, including some in the evening.

In addition, dozens of seminars are available each week within a 15 minute walk of the Chemistry Department. The links here showcase some of the more popular seminar series to our members, but external to our Department. If you would like us to add another link, please send an email to chemrcpt@pitt.edu.

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Mar 22
Doug Frantz - University of Texas San Antonio

Title: “Lessons in Chemistry: A Story of Success, Failure, and Hope at the Interface of Academic and Industrial Research”

Abstract: For the past two decades, my research group has pursued... View »

3:00pm
Mar 26
Melanie Reber - University of Georgia

See more of Dr. Reber's research on her website: https://www.chem.uga.edu/directory/people/melanie-reber

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2:30pm
Mar 26
Viresh Rawal - University of Chicago

See more of Dr. Rawal's research on his website: https://voices.uchicago.edu/rawalgroup/

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2:30pm
Mar 28
Angela M. Gronenborn - University of Pittsburgh Medical School

See more of Dr. Gronenborn's research on her website: https://amg.structbio.pitt.edu/

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2:30pm
Apr 02
Covestro Lectures (Day 1) - Samuel I. Stupp - Northwestern University

Title: New Frontiers in Materials Design to Mimic Living Systems

See more of Dr. Stupp's research on his website: https://stupp.northwestern.edu... View »

4:00pm
Apr 03
Covestro Lectures (Day 2) - Samuel I. Stupp - Northwestern University

Title: Extending Functional Design of Supramolecular Assemblies into a Fourth Dimension

See more of Dr. Stupp's research on his website: https://... View »

3:00pm
Apr 09
Zhixiang Yu - Peking University

See more of Dr. Yu's research on his website: https://www.chem.pku.edu.cn/zxyu/index/index.htm

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2:30pm
Apr 11
Henry Frank Lecture - Kenneth A. Dill - Stony Brook University

Title:  The Origins of Life:  An uncanny resemblance to the old Protein Folding Problem

Abstract:  How did the first living cells come into being from the earth’s molecular soup 3.5... View »

4:00pm
Apr 12
Kenneth A. Dill - Stony Brook University

See more of Dr. Dill's research on his website: https://laufercenter.stonybrook.edu/people/faculty

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4:00pm
Apr 16
Julia Chan - Baylor University

Title: Strategic Crystal Growth of f-electron Intermetallics in a Quantum Landscape

Abstract: The growth, characterization, and physical properties of new systems and architectures of new... View »

2:30pm
Apr 17
Julian West - Rice University

See more of Dr. West's research on his website: https://www.westchem.org/

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12:00pm
Apr 18
Coetzee Lecture - Richard M. Crooks - University of Texas at Austin

Title: Development of Electrocatalytic Models for Testing Theory

Abstract: One approach for designing improved nanoparticle catalysts involves the use of first-principles calculations,... View »

2:30pm
May 02
Eranthie Weerapana - Boston College

Title: Chemical-proteomic strategies to investigate reactive cysteines.

Abstract: Cysteine residues are critical to maintaining specialized protein functions, including nucleophilic... View »

2:30pm